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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Photo sharing"”.
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Evaluation of a domestic photo sharing environment
… so as to maximise the interaction possibilities. Photographs are a very affective and efficient way of connecting people to each other. We should not forget the social role photographs have to play. The most important aspect of the picture is the story that it is trying to convey, the people in …
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Co-present photo sharing on mobile devices
… dissertation researches current approaches to photo sharing. We have found that most current methods of photo sharing are not as compelling as traditional photo sharing - with the increasing in popularity of digital photography, consumers do not print photos as often as before and thus …
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Visual Analytic Extraction of Meaning from Photo-Sharing Services for Leisure Pedestrian Routing
… that the crowd-sourced data available from the photo- sharing websites have a potential for being a good source of this measure, thus becoming a base for a routing system that suggests attractive leisure walks. This PhD research looks at existing projects, which aim to utilize user-generated …
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The design and implementation of a distributed photo sharing Android application over ad-hoc wireless
We present a distributed photo-sharing Android application, CameraDP, that primarily relies on ad-hoc Wifi. The app runs on top of the novel DIstributed Programming Layer Over Mobile Agents (DIPLOMA) programming abstraction. DIPLOMA provides a consistent shared memory over a large distributed …
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Personality as a predictor of visual self-presentation and motivations for photo sharing via social media
… Despite the popularity and importance of photo sharing, there is little known about whether it is possible to study the expression of personality in Facebook using visual communication data (e.g. the content of uploaded photos). Therefore, this thesis aims to identify the quantity and …
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Visual interfaces to share and highlight everyday life
… the intersection of cultural understanding and photo-sharing that this thesis lies within.
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Instagram and relationships: An analysis using focus groups
… 5) expected profile engagement, 6) reciprocal photo sharing, 7) jealousy provoking behaviors, and 8) supplemental termination behavior. The first four themes showed that Instagram’s affordances play a large role in the coming together stages of romantic relationships. The next two themes …
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Trig'r : collective perception of architecture
… growth in databases for web-based image sharing. The focus of this thesis is to research and propose a novel approach to enhance image browsing and exploration through collective collaboration. The research will result in a test-bed, called Trig'r, for issues related to the filtering and …
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CloudCV: Deep Learning and Computer Vision on the Cloud
… is arguably the fastest growing data on the web. Photo-sharing websites like Flickr and Facebook now host more than 6 and 90 billion photos, respectively. Unfortunately, scaling existing computer vision algorithms to large datasets leaves researchers repeatedly solving the same algorithmic and …
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Accountable systems : enabling appropriate use of information on the Web
… in healthcare, and the other with rights in photo sharing. Healthcare patients given the ability to be notified of use of their medical records judged that they had sufficient privacy protection, while doctors obtained easier access to the records. Providers of photos could be assured their …
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'The East End is the new West End': London 2012 and resident experiences of the urban changes in a post-Olympic landscape.
… an adapted version of Wang and Burris’ (1997) Photovoice methodology using the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram; and follow up semi-structured interviews to discuss the collated digital data, I could comprehensively understand material regeneration and lived experience and evaluate …
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A Collective Sense of Place and the Image of the City @ Urban Public Spaces: Analysis on People's Perception of User-Generated Image Content and Hashtags on Instagram
… and their characteristics as projected through a photo-sharing social media application, Instagram. A total of 1,200 users' photos and associated hashtags geo-referenced to three New York City urban public spaces, Bryant Park, Madison Square Park, and Union Square. This study begins with a …
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Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems
… interaction data within large web-scale image sharing systems like Flickr, Picasa Web, Facebook and others for image recommendation. I have shown how such systems can be significantly improved through personalisation that takes into account the social context of users by modelling their …
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Distributed mobile platforms and applications for intelligent transportation systems
… networks with a representative location-based photo-sharing service and a synthetic benchmark. We also simulated large scale scenarios up to 160 nodes on the ns-2 network simulator. Compared to a client-server baseline, our system shows response time improvements of 10x over 3G and 2x over 4G. …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… used in this work is Flickr. Flickr is a yahoo photo sharing site. Users have a social network of friends and a collection of photos on their profiles. According to available statistics1 the Flickr database contains more than three billion photos, out of which a hundred million are geo-tagged. …
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Appropriation of privacy management within social networking sites
… MySpace, examples of Web 2.0 include the video sharing site http://youtube.com/ YouTube.com, and the photo sharing site http://flickr.com/ Flickr.com. These sites thrive on intensive social interaction, and are growing in scope and importance. There has been little consensus among researchers as …
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Tourist Photography and the Tourist Gaze: An empirical study of Chinese tourists in the UK
… understanding of the tourist gaze and tourist photography. The original concept of the ‘tourist gaze as proposed by John Urry is inherently Western-centric and, as a consequence, it is arguably of limited value as a conceptual framework for appraising the tastes, gazes and, more generally, the …